gangava

Turkish gangava

gangava (plural gangavas)

1. A small boat used for sponge fishing.

From Ottoman Turkish غانگاوه (gangava), from Greek γαγγάβα (gangáva), from Ancient Greek γαγγάμη (gangámē), variant of γάγγαμον (gángamon, “small net for oystercatching”).

gangava (definite accusative gangavayı, plural gangavalar)

1. a dragnet or dredge used for sponge fishing
   • 1930 October 31, “Akdeniz Sahillerimizin İktisadî Bir Can Damarı Süngerciliktir”, in Son Posta, page 5:

     Sünger zıpkınla, elbiseli ve eblisesiz dalgıçla, bir de gangava denilen ve denizin dibinde sürüklendirilen bir torbayla avlanır.

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2. a small boat used for sponge fishing

• gangavacı

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gangava”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1640
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 754
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN